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Community characteristics and distribution patterns of soil fauna after vegetation restoration in the northern Loess Plateau

Ecological Indicators, 2021
The relationship between soil fauna and vegetation diversity has been of continuous concern. The effects of the “Grain-for-Green” program on the Loess Plateau in maintaining the abundance and diversity of soil fauna are poorly understood.
Xi Yang, Ming'an Shao, Tongchuan Li, Miao Gan, Mingyu Chen   +4 more
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Plant diversity increases the abundance and diversity of soil fauna: A meta-analysis

Geoderma, 2022
Soil fauna communities are an important component of soil biodiversity, which is key to myriad terrestrial ecosystem processes. However, despite the current alarming loss of plant diversity, it remains unclear how plant diversity affects soil fauna ...
Yakun Zhang, Sai Peng, Xinli Chen, Han Y.H. Chen   +3 more
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Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests [PDF]

Nature Conservation, 2023
Soil fauna act as regulators of decomposition processes via their feeding activity, thereby playing an important role in regulating carbon cycling and sequestration.
Nicole Scheunemann, David J. Russell
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Inconsistent Patterns of Soil Fauna Biodiversity and Soil Physicochemical Characteristic Along an Urbanization Gradient

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Urbanization has induced substantial changes in soil physicochemical characteristic, which plays an important role in regulating soil fauna biodiversity in forests and grasslands.
Shiqin Yu, Shiqin Yu, Shiqin Yu, Zhifeng Wu, Guoliang Xu, Guoliang Xu, Guoliang Xu, Cheng Li, Zhijian Wu, Zengguang Li, Xiaohua Chen, Miaojun Lin, Xueru Fang, Yongquan Lin   +13 more
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Composition and structure of soil fauna communities and their relationships with environmental factors in copper mine waste rock after re-vegetation

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
The re-vegetation of acid mine waste rock from the Dexing copper (Cu) mine in Shuilong mountain has been conducted for more than 10 years. However, few studies have assessed the composition of soil fauna communities in this restored ecosystem.
Ping Lu, Yinjin Tan, Nianhua Dai, Mingxiao Di, Xiaodong Weng, Youhong Zhan, Derong Xu   +6 more
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Effects of simulated diesel contamination on soil fauna community

浙江大学学报. 农业与生命科学版, 2021
Soil fauna is an important component of soil ecosystem, which plays a significant role in the decomposition of biological remains, soil properties and the enhancement of material recycling and energy conversion in soils.
XIAO Jiujin, YANG Litong, YANG Zhifu, FENG Qiuhong, CHEN Lianghua, HU Zongda   +5 more
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Soil fauna: key to new carbon models [PDF]

SOIL, 2016
Abstract. Soil organic matter (SOM) is key to maintaining soil fertility, mitigating climate change, combatting land degradation, and conserving above- and below-ground biodiversity and associated soil processes and ecosystem services. In order to derive management options for maintaining these essential services provided by soils, policy makers depend
Juliane Filser, Jack H. Faber, Alexei V. Tiunov, Lijbert Brussaard, Jan Frouz, Gerlinde De Deyn, Alexei V. Uvarov, Matty P. Berg, Patrick Lavelle, Michel Loreau, Diana H. Wall, Pascal Querner, Herman Eijsackers, Juan José Jiménez   +13 more
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A call for collaboration to create the European Atlas of Soil Fauna

Soil Organisms, 2022
Soil biodiversity, and particularly soil fauna, drives essential soil functions leading to crucial ecosystem services. Many research activities over the last decades have produced data, which are however widely dispersed and not easily available, hence ...
Maria Tsiafouli, Jérôme Cortet , David Russell   +2 more
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Soil fauna diversity at different stages of reed restoration in a lakeshore wetland at Lake Taihu, China

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020
Introduction: Wetland soil fauna support material cycling and restoration processes in wetland ecosystems. In our study, we observed variations in wetland soil fauna on the shores of Lake Taihu, China.
Wei Li, Zhiguo Dou, Lijuan Cui, Xinsheng Zhao, Manyin Zhang, Yan Zhang, Changjun Gao, Zheng Yang, Yinru Lei, Xu Pan   +9 more
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Response of Soil Fauna Diversity to Agricultural Landscape Het-Erogeneity in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River—A Case Study in Gongyi City, China

Diversity, 2022
Soil fauna contribute to important ecological functions such as improving soil structure and promoting nutrient circulation. They are the common environmental indicators in agricultural landscape.
Panpan Zhang, Chenchen Zhang, Shunping Ding, Ziqi Bian, Peikun Li, Jian Zhang, Shengyan Ding   +6 more
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